Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Something for the Nation. Eduard Benes and Jan Masaryk certainly had no leanings toward Communism. But they were convinced that they must snuggle up to Stalin and try to take the middle path between East and West; they would be "realists." In Moscow they made the Soviet-Czech pact on Dec. 12, 1943. For the next four years Czech Communists, who now had the might of Russia behind them, jostled, maneuvered and crowded until they took over...
...definite opinions; the tactical gold-seeker slips or creeps in between them. He needs the radical oppositions so that he can skip to and fro. . . . The modern era . . . is the age of permanent revolutions. Reaction itself is a form of revolution . . . whence the high comedy of the golden middle path...
...soul seeking direct experience of God. Such a soul, says the author, must approach God with a "meek, longing love" and a "naked intent unto God alone, and not to anything that He has made." Meditation, even upon the goodness of God, is distracting; he who would follow this path must put aside all thoughts and images and concentrate his whole being on a yearning hunger for God. "The first time that you try you will find only a darkness, as though it were a Cloud of Unknowing, which you do not understand. . . . Strike upon that thick Cloud of Unknowing...
...while Hitler drilled his bullies, Ernst Juenger greased their path to power with his doctrine of total nihilism. Rejecting both traditional Christian and humanist values, he expressed the kind of diseased fascination with violence that led Germany's rootless youth into the Führer's ranks. "All Freedom, all Greatness, all Culture," he wrote, "are only maintained and spread aloft by wars...
...perfect timing and steady generalship. There is still no stroke, but Bolles shows no signs of worry, for Don Felt, from last year's Jayvee eight, Jud Gale, who spent last season at number five for the Varsity, and Bill Curwen, who bids fair to follow in the path of his brother James "Bus" Curwen '42, termed by Bolles "the greatest stroke I ever coached," are all in hot competition for the post...